Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis